Pelosi Visits Hiroshima Memorial

To: A_Former_Democrat

has she ever placed a wreath at Pearl Harbor?

21 posted on 09/02/2008 3:29:07 PM PDT by pennboricua

The Rape of Hong Kong ring a bell with people in Great Britian?

What about the rape of a number of other Chinese Cities (I think Nanking is the most infamous, but not sure)?

What about the Bataan Death March?

I do think Nancy Pelosi is overdue to insert FOOT IN MOUTH as she has that disease very badly...

22 posted on 09/02/2008 3:41:44 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

To: A_Former_Democrat

“Finish the tour, Nancy . . . go to Bataan and Nanking”

Not only those places, but the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. I’m sure that’s next on her tour.

23 posted on 09/02/2008 4:06:38 PM PDT by Old Grumpy

We meant it then, we still mean it now, and if the circumstances were the same, we would do it again.

24 posted on 09/02/2008 5:42:45 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)

This b1tch thinks she is president. Honest to freakin’ God. I truly believe that.

There are a lot of good conservatives running races for the House out there. Throw a $5 their way if you find one. It’s not even a given that she’ll win Speaker even if they still control the House, given how absolutely terrible her historic reign.

25 posted on 09/02/2008 6:18:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)

To: Jimmy Valentine

The Enola Gay is on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space extension at Dulles Airport. They did such a good restoration job she looks like you only need the ignition key to start her up.

Having seen her there multiple times since she went on display (and before that back in the 1990s both at the redesigned NASM Mall exhibit and at Garber), I think they did a little too good of a job. I don't think she looked that bright and polished when she rolled out of the factory. And NASM managed to screw up the restoration of her nose gear (when she dropped the bomb it was painted zinc chromate as an anti-corrosion measure ... they went and painted it silver).

Interesting story about the Enola Gay and the bomb, which bears telling here. It was told to me by one of the senior docents at the museum. Sitting underneath the Enola Gay is the last remaining Aichi M6A Seiran ... which was a Japanese floatplane bomber designed to be broken and folded down and stuffed into a chamber on the I-400 Class "submarine aircraft carriers" that Japan built near the end of the war.

When NASM Dulles opened, the former CO of the Seiran squadron visited to see the last of his old planes on display (NASM had established a relationship with him when he showed up at one of Garber's weekend tours when the Seiran was under restoration). This was a guy who, in early/mid-August 1945, was with his squadron aboard those submarines steaming to launch a suicide attack on the US carrier fleet at Ulithi. Someone at NASM asked him what he thought of the Seiran being displayed underneath the Enola Gay. He looked up at the Superfort and said "That plane not only saved my life ... it saved my country".

26 posted on 09/02/2008 6:45:56 PM PDT by tanknetter

"That plane not only saved my life ... it saved my country".

Given the numbers we forecast losing in the invasion of the home islands and the Japanese estimates; I think he's right.

27 posted on 09/03/2008 3:13:15 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)

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